Saturday, 21 November 2009

LOVER'S DUB

I was blown away by Roger's tone and his gravity. I felt it echoed someone like Linton Kwesi Johnson who I'd always been a massive admirer of. He has such an amazing tone of voice generally. Knowing he already had that, and then busting into the falsetto – it was incredible. I just get bored of the middle ground – I love extremes. I love really beautiful music or I love really ugly music. For me it's an assertion of life. [...] It's very much a case of “less is more”, as opposed to the wall of sound that I'm known for. I wanted to make it apparent that I am equally interested in spaciousness. And Dub! If anything I guess it's a dub lovers album, because those are the most potent inspirations on the record. When I hear it, that's where it comes from. So it's a reversion to space and the sensuality of bass. [...] There are spoken narratives on the album. It's almost a classical album – everything late 20th century was post-modern, abstract. This isn't, it deals with very central themes.(KEVIN MARTIN @FACT)

Debut album 'Waiting for You' has the gravitational pull of a black hole with a wide-screen sound that is also devastatingly intimate. It’s soaked in shimmering forgotten melodies that wouldn’t be out of place in a David Lynch movie and distant hooks from underground clubs on the periphery of your senses. [King Midas Sound] is an entirely organic and accidental trio, surrendering control and giving into a hitherto submerged sense of sublime melody.(THE QUIETUS)